"Lec 7 - Demographic Transition in Europe; Mortality Decline" Global Problems of Population Growth (MCDB 150) European population grew only slowly during the period 1200-1700; factors include disease and wars. Human feces and rotting animal remains were not sequestered and often contaminated drinking water. Cities were so filthy that more people died in them than were born. About a third of children died in infancy, many from abandonment and lack of care during wet-nursing. Children that survived were subjected to harsh discipline to control their tendency to sin. Ineffective and even harmful treatments, like blood-letting, were all that medicine could offer. Starting with Newton's Principia (1687) and the Enlightenment (eighteenth century), scientific attitudes began replacing religious ones: the biological and physical world became objects of study. Sanitation, hygiene and public health improved. Inoculation and vaccination were developed. The Industrial Revolution began. As death rates fell, population rose. While most believe that an increasing population is good, Malthus worries that population can grow faster than the food supply, trapping people in subsistence misery. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction: Stories about Bride Price 03:27 - Chapter 2. Review of Previous Session: Early Europe 17:30 - Chapter 3. Population Factors: Personal Cleanliness, Infanticide 27:19 - Chapter 4. Historic Misery, Disease, and Medicine 36:55 - Chapter 5. Further Aspects of 'Pre-Scientific' Life 44:38 - Chapter 6. Demographic Transition 01:02:24 - Chapter 7. Malthus Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses This course was recorded in Spring 2009.
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Lec 1 - Evolution of Sex and Reproductive Strategies
Lec 2 - Sex and Violence Among the Apes
Lec 4 - When Humans Were Scarce
Lec 5 - Why Is Africa Different?
Lec 8 - Demographic Transition in Europe; Fertility Decline
Lec 9 - Demographic Transition in Europe
Lec 11 - Low Fertility in Developed Countries (Guest Lecture by Michael Teitelbaum)
Lec 12 - Human and Environmental Impacts
Lec 13 - Fertility Attitudes and Practices
Lec 14 - Demographic Transition in Developing Countries
Lec 16 - Population in Traditional China
Lec 17 - Population in Modern China
Lec 18 - Economic Impact of Population Growth
Lec 19 - Economic Motivations for Fertility
Lec 20 - Teen Sexuality and Teen Pregnancy
Lec 21 - Global Demography of Abortion